Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terror still gripped Havana. In socialite Vedado suburb a young Negro attempted to steal a bicycle, ducked round a corner when he was seen. It was a stupid move for round that corner was the wall of Principe Fortress, on the wall was a prison guard with a rifle in his hand and nothing to do. The reaction of a Cuban guard to a running Negro is precisely that of a British sportsman to a rocketing pheasant. He killed him with a single shot...
Within the past few weeks the Harvard Liberal Club has received from your columns treatment that is gratuitously unfair and patently stupid...
First two volumes cover the period from the death of Alexander II to the year of the first revolution (1905). Other Fires ends just before the World War. Clim Samghin, lawyer and intellectual, has married his old flame. Varvara, but has discovered she is much too stupid for him. Interested, but never actively, in the social upheaval that is going on about him, Clim manages to keep his head above the emotional flood, picks a careful way between whirlpools. But revolutionary Moscow is no place for a spectator: he dodges bullets, gets beaten up on the street, finally leaves Moscow...
...instructor he will have a master rather than a tyro; in subject matter he will find that the dull necessities are compressed to a tight, clear, concise does made palatable by the chocolate chicle of interesting relevancies. Further, and most important, he will compress into one year the stupid translation which occupies the unenlightened who take German A, German 1, and German 2; he will be able at the end of a year of vigorous, stimulating effort, to go to more important courses, German 3, 4, 9, 26a, and justify the pair of A's or B's earned...
...interview. "It really is none of any other country's business. Protest meetings such as have been held in this country and in England, and even such denouncement of the Hitler movement as was made by Chamberlain the other day merely add fuel to the fire. It shows a stupid ignorance of history on the part of those protesting--for it is to be remembered that it was the severe condemnation of the outer world which led to the final supremacy of Lenin in Russia, with his Bolshevist movement, and which finally led to the victory of the French revolutionists...